2005 Lisbon local election explained

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Election Name:2005 Lisbon local elections
Type:parliamentary
Previous Election:2001 Lisbon local election
Previous Year:2001
Next Election:2007 Lisbon local by-election
Next Year:2007 by-election
Election Date:9 October 2005
Seats For Election:All 17 Councillors in the Lisbon City Council
Majority Seats:9
Turnout:52.7% 2.4 pp
Opinion Polls:2007 Lisbon local by-election#Opinion polling
Leader1:Carmona Rodrigues
Party1:Social Democratic Party (Portugal)
Last Election1:8 seats, 42.0%
Popular Vote1:119,837
Seats1:8
Percentage1:42.4%
Swing1: 0.4 pp
Leader2:Manuel Maria Carrilho
Party2:Socialist Party (Portugal)
Last Election2:6 seats (AL)
Popular Vote2:75,022
Seats2:5
Seat Change2: 1
Percentage2:26.6%
Swing2:N/A
Image3:
Leader3:Ruben de Carvalho
Party3:Portuguese Communist Party
Alliance3:CDU
Colour3:ff0000
Last Election3:2 seats (AL)
Popular Vote3:32,254
Seats3:2
Percentage3:11.4%
Swing3:N/A
Image4:
Leader4:José Sá Fernandes
Party4:Left Bloc (Portugal)
Last Election4:0 seats, 3.8%
Popular Vote4:22,342
Seats4:1
Seat Change4: 1
Percentage4:7.9%
Swing4: 4.1 pp
Image5:
Leader5:Maria José Nogueira Pinto
Party5:CDS - People's Party
Last Election5:1 seat, 7.6%
Popular Vote5:16,723
Seats5:1
Percentage5:5.9%
Swing5: 1.6 pp
Mayor
Before Election:Pedro Santana Lopes
Before Party:Social Democratic Party (Portugal)
After Election:Carmona Rodrigues
After Party:Social Democratic Party (Portugal)

The 2005 Lisbon local election was held on 9 October 2005 to elect the members of the Lisbon City Council.

Carmona Rodrigues, who was mayor during Santana Lopes' short period as prime minister from 2004 to 2005, was elected for a full term with 42% of the votes, defeating Manuel Maria Carrilho, from the Socialist Party, who achieved only about 27% of the votes.[1]

The Unitary Democratic Coalition ran alone this time, presenting Ruben de Carvalho and achieving 11% of the votes, which guaranteed two Communist councilors. The Left Bloc, with José Sá Fernandes as the candidate for Mayor, managed to gain a councillor seat for the first time. The CDS – People's Party, with Maria José Nogueira Pinto, managed to keep its councillor, despite losing some votes.

Background

In the 2001 election, the Social Democratic Party led by Pedro Santana Lopes, defeated incumbent Mayor João Soares, supported by the coalition between the Socialist Party and the Communist Party, by a margin of about 0.3%.[2]

In 2004, after Durão Barroso resigned as prime minister to assume the office of President of the European Commission, Pedro Santana Lopes was chosen as prime minister, being replaced as mayor by Carmona Rodrigues. He assumed the office until Santana Lopes' defeat in the 2005 legislative election, after which Santana Lopes regained his office as Mayor of Lisbon.[3]

Electoral system

Each party or coalition must present a list of candidates. The lists are closed and the seats in each municipality are apportioned according to the D'Hondt method. Unlike in national legislative elections, independent lists are allowed to run.[4]

Parties and candidates

Party/CoalitionPolitical
position		Candidate[5] 2001 result
Votes (%)Seats
PSDSocial Democratic Party
Centre-rightCarmona Rodrigues42.0%
PSSocialist Party
Centre-leftManuel Maria Carrilho41.7%
CDUUnitary Democratic Coalition
Left-wing
to far-left		Ruben de Carvalho
CDS–PPCDS – People's Party
Right-wingMaria José Nogueira Pinto7.6%
BELeft Bloc
Left-wing
to far-left		José Sá Fernandes3.8%
PCTPPortuguese Workers' Communist Party
Far-leftCarlos Paisana0.8%
PHHumanist Party
Centre-leftPedro Cruz Braga0.4%
PNRNational Renovator Party
Far-rightJosé Pinto Coelho0.2%

Opinion polling

Polling

Polling firm/LinkFieldwork dateSample sizePSDPSCDUCDSBELead
2005 local electiondata-sort-value="2019-10-06"9 Oct 200542.4
26.6
11.4
5.9
7.9
5.8
15.8
CESOP–UCPdata-sort-value="2019-10-06"9 Oct 2005?40–4426–3010–135–78–10–14
Eurosondagem2–5 Oct 20051,56941.430.510.15.58.54.010.9
Intercampus1–5 Oct 20051,00134.334.712.04.96.97.20.4
Aximage3–4 Oct 200550038.530.28.05.67.710.08.3
CESOP–UCP1–2 Oct 20052,41036311071065
Marktest1 Oct 200550338.227.79.28.09.28.310.5
Aximage24–27 Sep 200550039.925.76.84.45.717.514.2
CESOP–UCP7–11 Jul 2005989364163855
Eurosondagem20–22 Jun 20051,52536.429.67.84.17.514.66.8
Aximage22–23 Mar 200560047.246.66.20.6
Eurosondagem15–16 Mar 20051,0484144153
2005 legislative election20 Feb 200524.8
42.5
8.2
10.5
8.7
5.3
17.7
2004 EP election13 Jun 200433.4
41.2
9.6
[6] 8.5
7.3
7.8
2002 legislative election17 Mar 200238.0
37.6
7.1
8.8
5.1
3.4
0.4
2001 local electiondata-sort-value="2019-10-06"16 Dec 200142.0
41.7
7.6
3.8
5.0
0.3

Results

Municipal Council

|-| colspan="11"||-! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Councillors|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|±|-||119,837||42.43||0.5||8||0|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF66FF align="center" ||align=left|Socialist|75,022||26.56||||5||1|-| |32,254||11.42||||2||0|-| |22,342||7.91||4.1||1||1|-| |16,723||5.92||1.6||1||0|-| |2,689||0.95||0.2||0||0|-| |798||0.28||0.1||0||0|-| |507||0.18||0.0||0||0|-|colspan=2 width="330" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|270,172|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|95.65|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1.2|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|17|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0|-|colspan=2|Blank ballots|7,538||2.67||0.8||colspan=3 rowspan=4||-|colspan=2|Invalid ballots|4,733||1.68||0.5|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|282,443|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"||-|colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout||536,450||52.65||2.4|-| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Lisbon 2005 election results|}

Municipal Assembly

|-| colspan="11"||-! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Seats|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|±|-||107,917||38.21||1.6||23||0|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF66FF align="center" ||align=left|Socialist|77,789||27.54||||16|||-| |36,569||12.95||||7|||-| |26,434||9.36||4.5||5||3|-| |17,700||6.27||2.4||3||2|-| |3,613||1.28||0.2||0||0|-|colspan=2 width="330" align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|270,022|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|95.61|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1.2|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|17|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0|-|colspan=2|Blank ballots|7,735||2.74||0.6||colspan=3 rowspan=4||-|colspan=2|Invalid ballots|4,676||1.66||0.5|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total|width="50" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|282,433|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"||-|colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout||536,450||52.65||2.4|-| colspan=11 align=left | Source: Lisbon 2005 election results|}

Parish Assemblies

|- class="unsortable"!rowspan=2|Parish!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!rowspan=2|Total
S|- class="unsortable" style="text-align:center;"!colspan=2 | PSD!colspan=2 | PS!colspan=2 | CDU!colspan=2 | BE!colspan=2 | CDS–PP!colspan=2 | IND|-| style="text-align:left;" | Ajuda| 22.0| 3| 30.5| 4| style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"| 50.3| 5| 7.1| 1| 2.7| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Alcântara| 27.7| 4| 24.6| 3| style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"| 31.1| 5| 7.7| 1| 4.0| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Alto do Pina| style="background:; color:white;"| 47.9| 7| 24.7| 3| 8.9| 1| 7.6| 1| 6.9| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Alvalade| style="background:; color:white;"| 50.1| 7| 20.4| 3| 7.8| 1| 7.3| 1| 10.4| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Ameixoeira| style="background:; color:white;"| 30.3| 4| 29.1| 4| 24.9| 4| 7.3| 1| 3.8| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Anjos| style="background:; color:white;"| 38.6| 6| 26.7| 4| 12.2| 1| 8.5| 1| 8.6| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Beato| 25.8| 4| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 31.7| 5| 23.1| 3| 8.0| 1| 4.0| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Benfica| style="background:; color:white;"| 37.7| 8| 32.4| 7| 12.9| 3| 8.3| 1| 4.0| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 19|-| style="text-align:left;" | Campo Grande| style="background:; color:white;"| 42.4| 6| 26.9| 4| 12.3| 1| 7.1| 1| 7.3| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Campolide| style="background:; color:white;"| 33.4| 5| 30.2| 4| 16.5| 3| 9.0| 1| 6.5| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Carnide| 25.5| 4| 24.2| 3| style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"| 35.4| 5| 6.2| 1| 4.3| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Castelo| 7.9| -| 17.3| 1| style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"| 59.9| 5| 10.3| 1| 1.5| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 7|-| style="text-align:left;" | Charneca| 23.8| 3| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 36.4| 5| 25.0| 4| 6.3| 1| 3.6| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Coração de Jesus| style="background:; color:white;"| 40.3| 6| 25.7| 4| 10.1| 1| 10.6| 1| 8.0| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Encarnação| 28.6| 3| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 30.2| 3| 14.4| 1| 8.1| 1| 3.6| -| 10.6| 1| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | Graça| style="background:; color:white;"| 36.0| 5| 31.4| 5| 15.3| 2| 9.8| 1| 2.8| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Lapa| style="background:; color:white;"| 45.4| 6| 21.1| 3| 7.6| 1| 7.2| 1| 15.0| 2| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Lumiar| style="background:; color:white;"| 42.9| 9| 27.2| 6| 10.8| 2| 8.2| 1| 6.3| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 19|-| style="text-align:left;" | Madalena| 22.2| 2| 25.1| 2| style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"| 35.0| 3| 9.4| -| 5.4| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 7|-| style="text-align:left;" | Mártires| style="background:; color:white;"| 38.4| 3| 35.5| 3| 6.4| -| 5.9| -| 9.9| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 7|-| style="text-align:left;" | Marvila| 22.6| 5| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 33.2| 7| 25.0| 6| 6.8| 1| 2.6| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 19|-| style="text-align:left;" | Mercês| 29.5| 3| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 33.8| 4| 15.9| 1| 9.5| 1| 6.4| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | Nossa Senhora de Fátima| style="background:; color:white;"| 46.6| 7| 23.5| 3| 8.8| 1| 7.4| 1| 9.7| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Pena| style="background:; color:white;"| 30.2| 5| 29.4| 4| 21.3| 3| 8.9| 1| 4.9| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Penha de França| style="background:; color:white;"| 37.1| 6| 32.4| 5| 12.2| 1| 9.4| 1| 3.6| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Prazeres| style="background:; color:white;"| 32.7| 4| 28.5| 4| 21.0| 3| 7.0| 1| 7.3| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Sacramento| style="background:; color:white;"| 43.2| 3| 23.6| 2| 12.6| 1| 10.9| 1| 5.3| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 7|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santa Catarina| 27.5| 3| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 39.0| 4| 14.1| 1| 10.1| 1| 5.1| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santa Engrácia| style="background:; color:white;"| 35.9| 5| 29.7| 4| 19.3| 3| 6.3| 1| 3.6| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santa Isabel| style="background:; color:white;"| 44.9| 7| 23.3| 3| 11.7| 1| 7.5| 1| 8.5| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santa Justa| 26.2| 2| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 35.6| 3| 22.2| 2| 6.1| -| 5.5| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 7|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santa Maria de Belém| style="background:; color:white;"| 43.8| 7| 26.3| 4| 10.6| 1| 7.5| 1| 7.8| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santa Maria dos Olivais| 31.1| 7| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 35.9| 9| 14.1| 3| 8.3| 2| 3.8| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 21|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santiago| 22.1| 2| 28.8| 2| style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"| 36.3| 3| 6.3| -| 3.7| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 7|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santo Condestável| style="background:; color:white;"| 32.9| 5| 24.9| 4| 24.2| 3| 8.3| 1| 5.1| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santo Estêvão| 14.6| 1| 29.3| 3| style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"| 32.9| 4| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 2.3| -| 15.6| 1| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santos-o-Velho| 31.7| 3| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 34.2| 4| 16.2| 1| 6.6| -| 8.3| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Cristóvão e São Lourenço| 30.9| 3| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 38.3| 4| 14.2| 1| 8.6| 1| 3.7| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Domingos de Benfica| style="background:; color:white;"| 43.8| 10| 26.0| 5| 11.1| 2| 8.0| 1| 6.6| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 19|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Francisco Xavier| style="background:; color:white;"| 49.2| 7| 20.4| 3| 7.4| 1| 6.2| -| 12.7| 2| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | São João| style="background:; color:white;"| 31.2| 5| 29.1| 4| 22.9| 3| 7.9| 1| 4.2| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | São João de Brito| style="background:; color:white;"| 50.7| 7| 20.6| 3| 8.4| 1| 6.6| 1| 9.5| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | São João de Deus| style="background:; color:white;"| 49.9| 7| 20.7| 3| 7.1| 1| 6.9| 1| 10.8| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Jorge de Arroios| style="background:; color:white;"| 41.8| 6| 24.3| 3| 13.9| 2| 8.4| 1| 7.1| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | São José| style="background:; color:white;"| 32.3| 3| 30.4| 3| 16.3| 2| 10.2| 1| 5.5| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Mamede| style="background:; color:white;"| 45.1| 6| 26.1| 4| 7.0| 1| 7.2| 1| 10.7| 1| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Miguel| 19.4| 2| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 37.5| 4| 33.7| 3| 4.3| -| 1.9| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Nicolau| style="background:; color:white;"| 41.2| 4| 29.7| 3| 8.8| 1| 9.6| 1| 5.5| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Paulo| 31.4| 3| style="background:#FF66FF; color:white;"| 35.9| 4| 15.3| 1| 8.5| 1| 4.3| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | São Sebastião da Pedreira| style="background:; color:white;"| 48.4| 7| 18.8| 2| 6.4| 1| 7.7| 1| 15.5| 2| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 13|-| style="text-align:left;" | Santo Vicente de Fora| 22.1| 2| 28.9| 3| style="background:#FF0000; color:white;"| 32.3| 4| 7.5| -| 4.4| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | Sé| style="background:; color:white;"| 36.9| 4| 36.0| 4| 11.3| 1| 6.6| -| 4.0| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|-| style="text-align:left;" | Socorro| style="background:; color:white;"| 37.3| 4| 34.6| 4| 11.9| 1| 7.1| -| 4.2| -| colspan="2" bgcolor="#AAAAAA"|| 9|- class="unsortable" style="background:#E9E9E9"| style="text-align:left;" | Total| style="background:; color:white;"| 36.3| 250| 28.3| 201| 16.3| 115| 7.8| 44| 6.1| 23| 0.1| 2| 635|-| colspan=17 style="text-align:left;" | Source: Election Results|}

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Perder um debate quando já ninguém o estava a ver (mas estavam a filmar) . 2024-10-14 . Jornal Expresso . pt-PT.
  2. Web site: 2001-12-17 . Santana Lopes festeja vitória contra sondagens e Portas . 2024-10-14 . PÚBLICO . pt.
  3. Web site: Dinis . Rui Pedro Antunes, Rita . Como Santana governou Lisboa. 12 histórias para conhecer melhor o candidato a líder do PSD . 2024-10-14 . Observador . pt-PT.
  4. Web site: ::: Lei n.º 169/99, de 18 de Setembro . 2022-02-12 . www.pgdlisboa.pt.
  5. Web site: AUTO DE SORTEIO DAS LISTAS ELEIÇÕES AL 2005 . 2024-10-14 . Comissão Nacional de Eleições.
  6. PSD and CDS–PP ran in a coalition during the 2004 European Parliament election.

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